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With nearly 20 years of experience, Ingeborg works at Cargill as their Global Tax Operations Lead, with a heavy focus on the Tax Operations and anything related to Process, Data and Technology for Tax. This includes the design and improvement of (centralised) tax compliance processes, assurance the tax aspects in ERP deployments and upgrades are managed, provision of tax analytics tools and further the operational excellence results in the wider tax space.

Based in Amsterdam, Manus is Senior Tax Director at Cisco, where he leads the International Indirect Tax team. Throughout his career, Manus has been dedicated to building the highest-performing, innovative tax functions leveraging cutting-edge people talent and IT technologiies. Since joining Cisco in 2005, he has held leadership roles within the Global Tax & Customs team, with responsibilities spanning Indirect Taxes, Direct Taxes, and Transfer Pricing across multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Canada, Asia, and ANZ. While based in Singapore, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, Manus managed global teams and drove strategic tax initiatives across regions and business functions, such as Supply Chain, R&D, M&A, Sales, New Business Models, and Finance Solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Manus worked as an International Tax Lawyer at KPMG and EY, specializing in EU VAT law and Indirect Tax IT Solutions.

Raul is a highly motivated Indirect Tax professional, spending the last 18 years working for large US multinationals (Apple, AMD and TE Connectivity), since 2008 with focus in Indirect Taxes & Compliance, gaining during these years a strong knowledge in the European VAT Law and its application in SAP. He has a proven track record of success in internal and external Audits, as well as counting with an outstanding success in building solid internal and external relationships, working together with and leading multicultural Finance and Tax Teams from US, Asia and Europe.

He has lived and worked in Spain, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland over the last 21 years. Fluent in Spanish (mother tongue), English and German.

Henritta Amponsah leads the Group Indirect Tax function at Colt, where she is responsible for global indirect tax operations and compliance across EMEA and North America. She provides strategic business advisory and project leadership, particularly in areas of international expansion and risk mitigation.

Henritta brings extensive experience in indirect tax planning, with a strong focus on reducing VAT exposure and enhancing operational efficiency through process simplification and automation. Her approach combines technical expertise with a practical understanding of business needs, enabling her to deliver value across diverse markets.

Henritta is ACCA-qualified and has a solid foundation in accounting, which supports her ability to align tax strategy with broader financial and operational goals.

Lorraine has been working at Stryker for almost 6 years. In her current role Lorraine led a VAT compliance transformation project at Stryker by introducing tax technologies, automation & streamlining the end-to-end process. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. Having started her career in tax consultancy Lorraine moved to industry to specialize in VAT over 12 years.

Samir is leading the indirect tax team at the world's largest manufacturer of computer monitors and TV panels, representing leading brands like Philips, AOC, and Envision.

Here is my brief bio:  Baran Sari is a seasoned IT Program Manager at Dell Technologies, leading cross-functional teams in delivering global tax technology solutions. With over 18 years of experience in ERP systems and system integration, he ensures that tax compliance changes are implemented by IT on time across platforms like Oracle and SAP.

Karina has more than 15 years experience in Indirect Taxes (including big4 and in-house) with a strong focus on Data and Technology. Favourite topics: Data scraping, Data validation, RPA, Tax Automation, Processes standardisation, Data Reporting, DAC7, CESOP, VAT Numbers validation, etc.

Louise leads the Indirect Tax team at Skyscanner, covering VAT, GST, Digital Services Taxes, and Withholding Taxes. A Chartered Tax Advisor with 16 years’ experience in advisory and in-house roles, she now focuses on developing a Commercial & Tax Operating Framework to provide guardrails for Commercial and Legal teams while supporting geo-expansion. Alongside this, she leads work on indirect tax process automation and audit-ready data traceability for Digital Services Taxes. Outside work, Louise enjoys hillwalking — including summiting Kilimanjaro in 2022 — dance, and life with her German Shepherd, Axel and is currently planning her wedding for July.

Remco is currently responsible for running globally the Tax Operations within Blue dot. Blue dot is offering different AI driven Tax and audit solutions running on their online platform. The most known is the VATBox VAT recovery Solution, but Blue dot also offers solutions to analyse data for Employee Benefits (wage tax), Corporate Income Tax and Policy Audit on Employee expenses. Before joining Blue dot, Remco worked as the EMEA VAT lead at PPG Industries and before that worked as a tax lawyer at Baker & McKenzie.  Remco is registered as a certified tax advisor in the Netherlands.

Oleh is tax pro with 13+ years' experience in international tax, transfer pricing, and indirect tax. He specializes in digital platform taxation. He has an LL.M. in tax law from Lund University.

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